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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Film-maker Shu Kei tells Steve Paulson about his film, “A Queer Story.”  It’s the story of a gay couple in Hong Kong, and created a lot of discomfort for its straight audiences.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Suketu Mehta tells Jim Fleming about Bombay's archaic rent laws, the gang violence of the ‘90s and the sectarian riots and their aftermath.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In collaboration with David Lynch, Mark Frost co-created one of the most enduring fictional universes of all time — Twin Peaks. Now Frost has written an innovative novel that takes a deep dive into the history of the surreal logging town.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Everyone's afraid of something. Here's a small sampling of fears from Question Bridge: Black Males, a transmedia project that fosters dialogue between African American men of diverse backgrounds.

Question Bridge: Black Males was created by Chris Johnson and Hank WIllis Thomas, with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle talks with Jim Fleming about his latest.  “Drop City” is set in a California commune in the 1970s, and concerns the activities at one of America’s many private little Utopias.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist and editor Tom Shroder tells Jim Fleming about the remarkable cases he's investigated of children who insist they belong to a family other than the one they were born into.

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Frank Lloyd Wright is a titan of American architecture, but he was grievously wounded, at least, psychologically, by a tragedy that occurred when he was in his forties.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Are political beliefs predetermined at birth?  Encoded in our genes? Political scientist John Hibbing does fMRI studies of liberal and conserative brains and says there are significant biological differences. His message: stop yelling at the other party.  They can't help what they think. 

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